Hasta La Gadget!

Do you ever walk into an art museum to look at paintings and become uncontrollably angry? If you’re like me, you do. And you know why you feel that way? Because paintings are lazy–they just sit there all day while you work hard all week. Sometimes I can’t help but yell “You’re not so special, paintings! Why don’t you do something interesting!?” It feels good. Try it some time.

Well, at least for now, it looks like art is finally starting to listen and get more interactive. A new public installation piece called Onskebronn (Norwegian for “wishing well”) is currently on display at the Hauptbahnhof train station in Berlin. The project consists of a LED platform featuring a glowing grid that will react with both sound and light as pedestrians tread over it.

The piece comes courtesy of German performance art group Phase 7. Onskebronn originally was built in 2008 for public display in the city of Sandnes, Norway to celebrate that city’s designation as a “European Capital of Culture” (video of its original incarnation available after the jump).